According to Forbes, big data plays a surprising role in farm equipment manufacturing. 

The combine harvester, a staple of farmers’ fields since the late 1800s, does much more these days than just vacuum up corn, soybeans and other crops. It also beams back reams of data to its manufacturer.

Big data is helping unravel the mystery of Beethovan’s metronome, reports Physics World. 

“Big data” has been a buzzword in scientific research for some time, but this week saw it applied to a longstanding puzzle in music history. 

According to Ars Technica, archaeology is exploring how big data could transform the field.

Archaeology is finally catching up with the so-called "digital humanities," as evidenced by a February special edition of the Journal of Field Archaeology, devoted entirely to discussing the myriad ways in which large-scale datasets and associated analytics are transforming the field.